Aunt Ev, Arthur's sister and Helen's aunt.In this time, Annie teaches Helen discipline through persistence and consistency, and language through hand signals, a double breakthrough that changes Helen's life and has a direct effect on the lives of everyone in the family. After several fierce battles with Helen, Annie convinces the Kellers that she needs two weeks alone with Helen in order to achieve any progress in the girl's education.
Desperate, the Kellers hire Annie Sullivan to serve as governess and teacher for their daughter. Pitied and badly spoiled by her parents, Helen is taught no discipline and, by the age of six, grows into a wild, angry, tantrum-throwing child in control of the household. There's one argument in favour of the return to (up to) 10 nominees for the big prize! I digress, though The Miracle Worker is a fine film and may well have cast the die for future "inspirational caregiver, teacher, etc." films.In Tuscumbia, Alabama, an illness renders infant Helen Keller blind, deaf, and consequently mute ( deaf-mute). Lawrence of Arabia (winner), To Kill a Mockingbird, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Music Man and The Longest Day got that nomination, which means that other great films like The Manchurian Candidate, Days of Wine and Roses, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Birdman of Alcatraz also didn't get the nod. given that it's largely a two-hander of a script, it kind of makes you wonder how it wasn't nominated for Best Picture, too, but 1962 was a deep year. Definitely see it once, it's a classic, winner of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars. Stark and powerful, even if it slows into a somewhat repetitive groove after a while.
It struck me as unusual for a film of its era to start SO in media res, with the stakes already so high and the parents already so distraught, but it's for the better. Intense from the get-go, in both style and acting still cinematographically modern in a lot of ways and dominated by a fiery performance by Anne Bancroft.
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